End results, no process:

Few photographs are published that give a sense of how events unfolded: what were the economic, political, social, cultural causes that led to the depiction that one is seeing? It is as if life is depicted by the tips of icebergs, the bottoms safely and knowingly left out of the way. War is death and destruction; hunger signified by big-bellied kids and sober-looking mothers; politics by raving mobs (if a non-industrialized country) or orchestrated campaign stops. Why any of this occurred is left out of the photographs - it is like a photo call at a theatrical production where the actors pose in only the most dramatic scenes.

In 1982 I interviewed a photographer who had been on assignment for one of the newsmagazines in Christian East Beirut during the civil war. He was furious that he had not been stationed in Muslim West Beirut where the shells were landing; instead he had to photograph the soldiers who were firing them. And he was right: who would publish the photographs of the relatively well-off Christians in the East when pictures of the maimed from the Western side of town were available?